Word: shapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until this maneuvering is completed, it is difficult to tell exactly how each club "section" will take shape and how many men will be "hundred per centers." A hundred per center is defined this year as a sophomore who has not received a first-list bid or joined Prospect Club--a cooperative organization holding an open Bicker--by 10 p.m. tomorrow night, Open House Night...
...voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version of last session's Kennedy-Ives labor bill before the Administration could get its own to Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders, with no fanfare but equal determination, settled down in typical conservative fashion to shape the course of government...
...this point a rotund shape loomed on the horizon. It was that of Sir Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph, 47, cheerily announcing his willingness to be of help: "I have always wanted to be a member of Parliament. I think my upbringing and varied experience of life entitle me to suppose without presumption that I have some useful contributions to make...
Everyone reacted wonderfully in character. New York's Finest, in the shape of First Deputy Police Commissioner James Kennedy, came forward indignantly to ask names and addresses of the call girls, madams and businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole...
Sickle-cell anemia is so-called because, in its victims, many red blood cells change from their normal roughly spherical shape to that of a thin sickle. It is virtually confined to Negroes. The sickling trait is transmitted by a gene-just how is not certain. Best estimates are that 9% of U.S. Negroes (or 1,500,000) carry the gene but rarely need treatment, while perhaps 30,000, who have inherited the gene from both parents, have the full-blown disease...